Renault is halting production of the Mobilize Duo and Bento
- Created in 2021, Mobilize was a Renault brand dedicated to new mobility and services, created in January 2021. It was presented as the fourth brand of the Renault group including Renault, Dacia and Alpine. The objective assigned to Mobilize was to play the mobility card outside of the classic car and traditional means of transport in order to capture up to 20% of the group's turnover by 2030.
- Among the various products marketed by Mobilize, the Duo and Bento battery electric quadricycles represented the brand's two rolling products, heirs in a way to the old Renault Twizy quadricycle (2011-2023). Production of these two vehicles was organized at the Tangier plant. Only 2,000 Duos were reportedly produced between the model's launch and July 2025, on an assembly line with a capacity of 17,000 vehicles per year. Production of the Bento never truly began (Source : Official Renault press release dated July 4, 2025).
- In December 2025, Renault announced the end of the Mobilize brand, leading to the discontinuation of the Duo and Bento models, as well as the car-sharing system associated with them. According to Inovev, the very low sales of these 2.50-meter-long models, which only accommodated two people, convinced the carmaker that their marketing was not profitable due to a lack of demand, partly attributable to their high price. At €9,990 for the license-free version, the Duo was €2,000 more expensive than the Citroën Ami quadricycle. And at €12,500 for the version requiring a B1 license, it was far too close to the Renault Twingo E-Tech, launched in 2026, which can accommodate four people and will be sold for less than €15,000 in its base version.
- It's true that when the Mobilize Duo and Bento were designed, Renault hadn't yet planned to launch a fully electric Twingo at that price. Production of the Duo and Bento will therefore cease at the end of December 2025.